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Generating A Controller

To generate a controller (for example Posts), navigate to your project directory from a command line or terminal, and run: $ rails generate controller Posts You can shorten this code by replacing generate with g, for example: $ rails g controller Posts If you open up the newly generated app/...

Ruby on Rails • Getting started with Ruby on Rails

Remove, delete and cleanup containers

docker rm can be used to remove a specific containers like this: docker rm <container name or id> To remove all containers you can use this expression: docker rm $(docker ps -qa) By default docker will not delete a container that is running. Any container that is running will produce a...

Docker • Managing containers

Granting & revoking API 23+ permissions

A one-liner that helps granting or revoking vulnerable permissions. granting adb shell pm grant <sample.package.id> android.permission.<PERMISSION_NAME> revoking adb shell pm revoke <sample.package.id> android.permission.<PERMISSION_NAME> Granting all run...

Android • adb shell

Infinity and NaN ("not a number")

In all versions of Python, we can represent infinity and NaN ("not a number") as follows: pos_inf = float('inf') # positive infinity neg_inf = float('-inf') # negative infinity not_a_num = float('nan') # NaN ("not a number") In Python 3.5 and higher, we can also us...

Python Language • Math Module

Iterating over a list

Python supports using a for loop directly on a list: my_list = ['foo', 'bar', 'baz'] for item in my_list: print(item) # Output: foo # Output: bar # Output: baz You can also get the position of each item at the same time: for (index, item) in enumerate(my_list): print('The item i...

Python Language • List

Filters

Vue.js allows you to append optional “filters” to the end of an expression, denoted by the “pipe” symbol: {{ message | capitalize }} Here we are “piping” the value of the message expression through the built-in capitalize filter, which is in fact just a JavaScript function that returns the capit...

Vue.js • Data Binding

Character Guide

Note that some syntax elements have different behavior depending on the expression. SyntaxDescription?Match the preceding character or subexpression 0 or 1 times. Also used for non-capturing groups, and named capturing groups.*Match the preceding character or subexpression 0 or more times.+Match th...

Regular Expressions • Getting started with Regular Expressions

Encoding/decoding error handling

.encode and .decode both have error modes. The default is 'strict', which raises exceptions on error. Other modes are more forgiving. Encoding >>> "£13.55".encode('ascii', errors='replace') b'?13.55' >>> "£13.55".encode('ascii', errors='ignore') b'13.55' ...

Python Language • Unicode and bytes

Creating a random user password

In order to create a random user password we can use the symbols provided in the string module. Specifically punctuation for punctuation symbols, ascii_letters for letters and digits for digits: from string import punctuation, ascii_letters, digits We can then combine all these symbols in a name...

Python Language • Random module

Simple interface

In Go, an interface is just a set of methods. We use an interface to specify a behavior of a given object. type Painter interface { Paint() } The implementing type need not declare that it is implementing the interface. It is enough to define methods of the same signature. type Rembrandt ...

Go • Interfaces

Setting up jQuery UI for the First Time Example

The jQuery UI framework helps to extend and increase the User Interface controls for jQuery JavaScript library. When you wish to use jQuery UI, you will need to add these libraries to your HTML. A quick way to start is using the Content Delivery Network available code sources: jQuery Libraries ht...

jQuery UI Library • Getting started with jQuery UI Library

Setting Minimum and Maximum dates for a datepicker

jQuery UI Library • Datepicker

Basic Django DB queries

Django ORM is a powerful abstraction that lets you store and retrieve data from the database without writing sql queries yourself. Let's assume the following models: class Author(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=50) class Book(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max...

Django • Models

jQuery UI Sortable - Drop Placeholder

This example of the Sortable using a Placeholder is common usage. Sortable is applied to a group of DOM elements, allowing the user to move items around in the list via Drag'n Drop style actions. <!doctype html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8&q...

jQuery UI Library • jquery ui sortable

Using modules from other program units

To access entities declared in a module from another program unit (module, procedure or program), the module must be used with the use statement. module shared_data implicit none integer :: iarray(4) = [1, 2, 3, 4] real :: rarray(4) = [1., 2., 3., 4.] end module program test !...

Fortran • Usage of Modules

Format literals (f-string)

Literal format strings were introduced in PEP 498 (Python3.6 and upwards), allowing you to prepend f to the beginning of a string literal to effectively apply .format to it with all variables in the current scope. >>> foo = 'bar' >>> f'Foo is {foo}' 'Foo is bar' This works wi...

Python Language • String Formatting

Logging to Syslog service

It is possible to configure Django to output log to a local or remote syslog service. This configuration uses the python builtin SysLogHandler. from logging.handlers import SysLogHandler LOGGING = { 'version': 1, 'disable_existing_loggers': True, 'formatters': { 'standard':...

Django • Logging

Using custom deleters to create a wrapper to a C interface

Many C interfaces such as SDL2 have their own deletion functions. This means that you cannot use smart pointers directly: std::unique_ptr<SDL_Surface> a; // won't work, UNSAFE! Instead, you need to define your own deleter. The examples here use the SDL_Surface structure which should be fre...

C++ • Smart Pointers

Traversals

A Traversal' s a shows that s has 0-to-many as inside of it. toListOf :: Traversal' s a -> (s -> [a]) Any type t which is Traversable automatically has that traverse :: Traversal (t a) a. We can use a Traversal to set or map over all of these a values > set traverse 1 [1..10] [1,1,1,...

Haskell Language • Lens

Simple queries on a standalone model

Here is a simple model that we will use to run a few test queries: class MyModel(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=10) model_num = models.IntegerField() flag = models.NullBooleanField(default=False) Get a single model object where the id/pk is 4: (If there are no...

Django • Querysets